Old Nebraska Guy

Humm….how long has this ad been posted I wonder if it is one of those things where they have their guy but be because it's a state job it has to be listed for X number of days. Like, You Know...they only interview one guy and that interview has already happened.

Time to burn a couch

Mea Culpa Mea Culpa Rats, one of the forty bowls that I was so sure about is for FCS teams. So 78 teams, 75 bowl eligible teams, with Boston College (win or lose) ahead of us leaves only two slots. I would require a major miracle for DONU to qualify. Well, technically Nebraska is still alive for the APR bowl. NOT REALLY...SEE YOU NEXT YEAR. There are 40 bowls (even though some talking heads are saying 39...one was added this year.) Currently, as of Friday night there are 75 teams with six or more wins. Liberty's six wins do not currently count as two were against FCS teams. Boston College is ahead of UNL on the APR list, we are second after Ohio and Kent St. won this week. We can hope that the teams with four wins and that are ahead of us on the APR list don't pick up their 5th win and/or only a few teams with five wins pick up their sixth win. Chances are slim for us but as they say there is a chance. Here the teams with six or more wins. Teams in the first column have finished their season. APP 11-1 AFA L TECH TEMPLE AR St 7-5 ALA LOU TENN BSU 11-1 ASU LSU TULANE BUFFALO 7-5 AUB MIAMI UAB CINN 10-2 BAYLOR MICH UGA CMU 8-4 BYU MINN UK EMU 6-6 CAL MRSH ULL IOWA 9-3 CHAR MS St USC KENT St 6-6 CLEM NAVY USM M OHIO 7-5 FAU ND UTAH MEMPHIS 11-1 FIU NEV Utah St OHIO 6-6 FLA OK St WAKE F TEXAS 7-5 FSU OKLA WIS TOLEDO 6-6 GA SO OREGON WKU UCF 9-3 GA St OSU WYO UVA 9-3 HAW PITT 1 V TECH 8-4 ILL PSU 2 WASH 7-5 IND SDSU 3 WASH St 6-6 ISU SMU WMU 7-5 KSU T A&M

This may be a waste of time, but what the heck I'm retired. By my count there are eight bowl slots left as of Tuesday morning. Here are the contenders. You do the math FIVE WIN TEAMS & THEIR OPPONENTS BOSTON COLLEGE PITT (7-4) NORTH CAROLINA N CAROLINA ST (4-7) TEXAS CHRISTIAN Lost...5-7 MICHIGAN ST. MARYLAND (3-8) NEBRASKA Lost...5-7 ARMY HAWAII (8-4) NAVY (8-2) OHIO Won...Now 6-6 KENT ST Won...Now 6-6 OREGON ST OREGON (9-2) COLORADO UTAH (10-1) MIZZOU Lost appeal, has bowl ban MISSISSIPPI ST Won...Now 6-6 TROY Lost...5-7 LOUSIANA MONROE LOUISANA (9-2) LIBERTY 2 of six wins are against FCS, only one counts FOUR WIN TEAMS AHEAD OF US IN THE APR DUKE MIAMI (6-5) STANFORD NOTRE DAME (9-2) MIDDLE TENN STATE WESTERN KENTUCKY (7-4) OLE MISS Lost...4-8

Nebraska is tied for 41st in APR. After a quick check, errors possible, 37 of the 41 are either bowl eligible or currently have four or fewer wins. Of the remaining four Nebraska is tied for third. Ohio and Boston College have five wins are ahead of us. With a game to go, positions could change radically. It would be better to just win (baby)

Something else to consider, especially for freshman kickers, is that the width of the college goalposts is nearly five feet narrower than the high school goalpost. All of McCallum's kicks so far would have been good with a high school goal.

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IIRC the team has to be down to 85 by August 1 or maybe by their first fall practice

Another factor on scholarships to walkons is the rule about only 25 new "counters" per year and that if a walkon has been here for two years they do not count as a new "counter", however, all scholarships count toward the 85 max.

Actually the Gopher's stadium is on campus, the newest in the conference but only seats 50,800ish. A minor technicality.

Tressel is the President of YSU The same position he occupied when Bo was hired.

Are the $'s before or after the lawyers get their cut?

Calvin Jones played in one super bowl with Green Bay but I think all he did was special teams.

If this works...here are all the latitudes for all the schools that played in bowl games. If you really want to argue North/South. All are degrees North Lincoln is included for reference. HAWAII Honolulu 21.3000 MIAMI Coral Gables 25.7167 FLORIDA INT Miami 25.7753 USF Tampa 27.9681 UCF Orlando 28.5400 FLORIDA Gainesville 29.6520 HOU Houston 29.7628 TULANE New Orleans LA 29.9500 ULL Lafayette LA 30.2167 TEXAS Austin 30.2667 LSU Baton Rouge 30.4475 T A&M College Station 30.6014 BAYLOR Waco TX 31.5847 TROY Troy AL 31.8089 GA SOUTHRN Statesboro 32.4453 TCU Fort Worth TX 32.4500 L TECH Ruston 32.5297 AUBURN Auburn 32.5978 SDSU San Diego 32.7150 ALABAMA Tuscaloosa 33.2067 UNTx Denton 33.2164 ARIZONA St Tempe 33.4128 MS St Starkville 33.4625 UAB Birmingham 33.6533 GA TECH Atlanta 33.7550 UGA Athens 33.9500 SC Columbia 34.0006 CLEMSOM Clemson SC 34.6850 MEMPHIS Memphis 35.1175 OKLA Norman 35.2200 NC St Raleigh 35.7667 ARKANSAS St Jonesboro 35.8281 MT St Murfreeboro 35.8461 DUKE Durham NC 35.9886 WAKE F Winst-Salem NC 36.1028 OK St Stillwater 36.1160 VAN Nashville 36.1667 APP Boone NC 36.2114 FRESNO Fresno 36.7500 V TECH* Blacksburg (Median) 37.2300 STANFORD Palo Alto 37.4292 CALIFORNIA Berkeley 37.8717 KENTUCKY Lexington 38.0297 UVA Charlottesville 38.0300 MRSH Huntington WV 38.4208 MIZZOU Columbia 38.9514 CINNCINATI Cincinnati 39.1233 OHIO Athens 39.3292 NEV Reno 39.5272 OSU Columbus 39.5900 WVU Morgantown 39.6336 TEMPLE Philadelphia PA 39.9528 BYU Provo Ut 40.2444 PITT Pittsburgh 40.4397 PURDUE West Lafayette IN 40.4419 UTAH Salt Lake City 40.7500 PSU State College 40.7914 UNL Lincoln 40.8089 ARMY West Point NY 41.3833 IOWA Iowa City 41.6600 TOLEDO Toledo 41.6656 ND Notre Dame IN 41.7030 USU Logan 41.7378 NIU DeKalb 41.9314 ISU Ames 42.0347 NW Evanston IL 42.0464 E MICHIGAN Ypsilanti 42.2428 MICH Ann Arbor 42.2814 WMU Kalamazoo 42.2900 MSU East Lansing 42.7347 BUFFALO Buffalo NY 42.9047 SYR Syracuse NY 43.0469 WIS Madison 43.0667 OREGON Eugene 44.0519 MINN St. Paul 44.9553 WASH St Pullman 46.7333 WASH Seattle 47.6097

It would certainly make it easier, but if we wait around until we get a top five class or two we could be waiting a long long time. Play with what you got and try to get better every day and with every class and let the chips(wins) fall where they may.

I'm of the opinion that the bowl results are not that great of indicator of conference strength because most of the time conference records hover around 0.500. Last year with the B1G winning all but one game and P-12 losing them all were excepts that let a lot of fans stick their chest out. This year with a few games to go at 4:30 1/1/2019 ACC...4-4, one game to play B-12...3-3, one game to play B1G....4-4, one game to play P-12....3-3, one game to play SEC.....6-4, two games to play I think this is more the normal than last year.

I've said it before and I'll keep reminding people. 1. The 85 scholarship limit went into effect in the early '90's, without looking it up, I think 1991. And some degree of scholarship limit was in effect from the middle 70's. 2. Yes, Nebraska used partial qualifiers as allowed by the NCAA until the Big 12 was formed and finally the NCAA banned all partials in the late 90's. However, nowhere is it written that low level learners or those who blew off their high school studies where automatically better football players. 3. Parity did increase but the "good" schools still won more games. And furthermore, Nebraska was not the only school that had to play by these rules. Texas, Florida, Miami, all the rest had to only give 85, had to pass on partials, (if they used them), and parity affected everybody.

I sense a sponsorship opportunity. As in "The post match handshake is sponsored by..." (then hand out little foil pouches as the players get to the end of the line and leave the court)

By John Madden, doing color for a Saints game. Just after Derek Brown just "destroyed" a blitzing linebacker during pass pro' you can expect Nebraska players to do that (something like that...can't exactly remember)

The COW (see above) has spoken (twice) As of 7:30 p.m. Saturday there were 80 teams with six or more wins and we are 4-8. it's all moo!

Well, it really is over now. One of those 18 teams that Nebraska needed to lose won last night. There are now 72 bowl eligible teams. Thanks to Moiraine I enjoyed all the work that she put in and it was fun (while it lasted) and the discussion that followed. Amazing, five pages.....

That crazy scenario is technically correct. If Vandy wins the head to head they become a regular qualifier and are removed from the APR list leaving only three teams ahead of NU. 71 now + 3 head to head winners + now only 3 APR qualifiers = 77 bowl teams. All that other stuff has to happen too...piece of cake, get you ticket orders in...smirk

One more time, Here are the cold hard numbers..... 39 bowls....78 teams need six wins to be bowl eligible After last weekend... 71 teams have at least six wins....7 spots left. 22 teams have five wins. Six of them have head to head games this week guaranteeing three more six win teams...4 spots left. Of the 16 remaining, in my opinion, six are overwhelming favorites. If, we are in the what if stage, If all six win there will be 80 six win teams. This is not counting a couple of four win teams that just scheduled a "ho hummer" to get to six. cough cough...V Tech What if the 16 remaining teams all lose. Talk to your local bookie, ask what are the odds of hitting a 16 team parlay. Then the RULE established after the 2015 comes into play. Which is the APR ranking is the selection order for five win teams. And after last weekend, four teams are ahead of Nebraska in APR, and voila 78 bowl spots are filled and Nebraska coached get to go recruiting.

Oops, meant to remove them from the list. Trying again Wake Forest.....lost Miami...……………WON Ok St...………………WON T Tech...……………lost Baylor...…………....lost Indiana……………………trailing by 8, 6:10 4th Purdue...……………lost BYU...….9:15 p.m. kickoff USC...…………………lost Arizona..9:30 p.m. kickoff Colorado...………….lost SC...…….6:30 p.m. kickoff Tennessee...……….lost CCU....just started ULL...…………………...leading by 10, 5:38 3rd

update Wake Forest...losing Miami Ok St T Tech Baylor...losing Indiana Maryland Minnesota...losing Purdue BYU USC Arizona Colorado....losing SC Tennessee CCU ULL many to still kick off